Posted on 01/02/2017 6:57:54 PM PST by artichokegrower
The next time you wander into Sammy’s Wood-Fired Pizza for a burrata and pesto pie, indulge in a shrimp-filled bucket at Rockin’ Baja Lobster, or decide to splurge on beef tenderloin at George’s at the Cove, don’t be surprised to see an added charge when your check arrives.
Girding for the second minimum wage hike in six months and the fourth in 2-½ years, many of San Diego’s full-service restaurants are introducing for the first time an average surcharge of 3 percent of the meal’s cost to help cover increased labor expenses that some operators say amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single year.
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Great way to get around this, eat at home, better food ...
Just deduct it out of the tip...
We have a very nice kitchen with two micro waves in my business. I am tired of $25 lunches. I have the finest quinine from my micro wave and read FR and Drudge. Happy as a Tick on a wart hog.
No, just put an explicit surcharge on the bill and attribute the cost, by name, to the voter referendum that is responsible.
3%. God the world is ending.
Yep. If I see a surcharge it will get deducted from the tip and I’ll make sure and tell the waitress/waiter why. They can talk to the management.
Pull that on me and I won’t be back.
$25!? lunches? That figure even scares us here in Hollywood. Unless the waitress is a Victoria’s Secret model in a bikini serving me, that’s crazy.
I would not leave a tip to deduct it from. Tell them the 3 per cent is their tip. If I knew of it beforehand, I would not go there.
They better be posting that on the door before you go in. If not, they know what they can do with that surcharge.
With tip— 25!! What aq damned joke. I am out.
I would pay it the first time since it’s not the businesses or the waiters fault (unless they are clueless dems, but I would tell them I will never come back and I wouldn’t.
I’ve mentioned before that we got a surcharge on a restaurant bill the last time we went to San Francisco (I think it was like $5... For the homeless). Never going back.
Subtract the surcharge from the bill because of having to sit in the place and eat in the first place. Also, as an other poster wrote: deduct the charge from the tip. Put down your ten percent or whatever and then subtract 3%.
It’s the principle of the thing.
I noticed for the first time the other day, they now give you an option of a 25% tip. Seriously? I guess once they convinced people to do the 20% tipping, it was just a matter of time. And probably paying lower wages.
No way I am tipping 25%.
In the form of gin and tonics? ;-)
If your restaurant’s overhead increases, why in hell doesn’t management just increase the prices on their menus? What in hell is a “surcharge” being added for? All other labor costs were included in the cost of the meal before the minimum wage was increased. Trying to artificially keep your menu prices down, but adding a charge after the meal has been consumed to the customers bills to cover additional costs NOT listed in the pricing is fraud of the highest order. Will they start charging a surcharge for the electricity and gas used in the restaurant for lighting and heating? How about for the property taxes?
I agree with everyone, but your anger is misplaced. It is the fools in power in Sacramento and other capitols that are to blame, as well as OBOZO and his “AFORDABLE” care act.
Customers respond by eating at home.
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